Echo Plus is a simple way to start your smart home. It has a built-in ZigBee smart home hub, which allows for simple and direct setup of compatible ZigBee lights, locks and more from brands including Philips Hue and others. No additional hub is required.

Echo Plus connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service, to play music, make calls, set timers and alarms, ask questions, check traffic and weather, and more. Just ask.

Just ask for a song, artist or genre from Amazon Music Unlimited, Spotify, iHeartRadio, TuneIn and more. With multi-room music, you can play music on Echo devices in different rooms. Echo can play Audible audiobooks, radio stations, news briefings and read kindle ebooks. Services may require subscriptions or other fees; Bluetooth not supported for multi-room music.

Call or message anyone hands-free who also has an Echo device or the Alexa App. Also, quickly connect to other Echo devices in your home using just your voice.

Echo Plus is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice, with a built-in smart home hub. It connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, answer questions, make calls, provide information, news, sports scores, weather and more - just ask.

Echo Plus has a 360 degree room-filling sound, and can hear you from across the room from any direction. It is always getting smarter as Alexa continues to add additional features. With a built-in smart home hub and simple setup for compatible connected devices, starting your smart home or integrating into your existing system is now easier than ever.

With the built-in smart home hub, Echo Plus makes connecting to compatible smart home devices easier than ever. Just ask “Alexa, discover my devices”, and Echo Plus will automatically discover and set up compatible smart lights and more without the need for additional hubs, apps or setup.

Turn on the lamp before getting out of bed or switch on a kettle in the morning without lifting a finger. Simple setup works with variety of ZigBee lights, locks and more from leading brands like Philips Hue.
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Echo Plus can connect to compatible devices including light bulbs, switches and TVs by enabling the manufacturer’s Skill in the Alexa Skills Store, from a variety of brands, including Philips Hue, LIFX, TP-Link, Logitech Harmony and more – learn more. Control multiple devices at scheduled times or with a single voice command, like turning-on your phone charger and turning the lights off when you go to bed.

With a 2.5” downward-firing woofer and 0.8” tweeter powered by Dolby, Echo Plus has crisp highs, deep bass and 360° audio to fill your room with music. You can also listen to audiobooks from Audible, play music from Amazon Music, Spotify, TuneIn and more. With Amazon Music Unlimited, you can search by lyrics, time period or let Alexa pick the music for you.

Want to play music on an Echo in another room? With multi-room music, you can tell Alexa to play across your compatible Echo devices (Bluetooth not supported for multi-room music). Tell Alexa to play jazz in the kitchen, 90s pop in the living room, or play the same song downstairs.

With Echo, you can talk to almost anyone hands-free—no tapping or searching required. Use the Drop In feature when you want to connect with compatible Echo devices in your home. For example, you can ask someone for help with a chore, or remind the kids to go to sleep—without having to raise your voice.

Making calls with Alexa is easy. Your contacts will see your number when they receive the call so they know who is calling. Additionally, you can send messages via voice to anyone with a supported Echo device or the Alexa App. Learn more Plus, now with Skype calling stay in touch with friends and family in over 150 countries.

Tucked under the light ring is an array of seven microphones that use beam-forming technology and enhanced noise cancellation. Echo Plus has improved wake-word performance to hear you ask a question from any direction—even in noisy environments or while playing music at loud volumes.

When you want to use Echo Plus, simply say the wake word, “Alexa”, and Echo lights up and connects to the cloud, where the Alexa Voice Service recognises and responds to your request. Learn more about voice recognition on Echo.

With Alexa and your Prime membership, shopping for essentials and reordering your favourite Prime eligible domestic items from Amazon has never been easier. Learn more. Just ask:

Echo Plus has thousands of skills and counting. Skills add even more capabilities such as checking surf conditions with Coastalwatch, requesting a ride from Uber, discovering recipes with Taste.com.au and more. To enable new skills, just ask Alexa.

New skills are being added all the time. You can see ratings and reviews to learn what other customers are saying about the thousands of skills available in the Alexa App.

Alexa—the brain behind Amazon Echo Plus—updates through the cloud automatically and is continually learning, adding new functionality and skills. The more you use Echo Plus, the more it adapts to your speech patterns, vocabulary and personal preferences. Explore more things to try with Alexa

Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) support for audio streaming from your mobile device to Echo Plus or from Echo Plus to your Bluetooth speaker. Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) for voice control of connected mobile devices. Hands-free voice control is not supported for Mac OS X devices. Bluetooth speakers requiring PIN codes are not supported

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2.5” woofer and 0.8” tweeter

System Requirements

The Alexa App is compatible with Android and iOS devices and also accessible via your desktop browser. Certain skills and services are subject to change, may not be available in all areas and may require separate subscriptions or other fees

Warranty and Service

Amazon Echo Plus is sold with a limited warranty of one year provided by the manufacturer. This Limited Warranty does not restrict or alter any non-excludable statutory consumer protections or rights you may have, including under the Australian Consumer Law. Use of Echo is subject to the terms found here

When you are running low on household essentials, Alexa makes it easy to replenish your pantry. You can add everything from batteries to nappies to your Amazon Cart, reorder favourite products from Amazon and ask Alexa the status of your recent Amazon orders.

With the free Alexa app on Android (5.0 or higher), iOS (9.0 or higher) and desktop browsers, you can easily set up and manage your Amazon Echo Dot, Echo and Echo Plus.

Use the Alexa app to connect services such as Amazon Music Unlimited, Spotify and Google Calendar. Set up your compatible smart home devices from Philips Hue, LIFX, TP-Link, D-Link, Logitech Harmony, and more. View shopping and to-do lists while on the go. Control your timers and set custom tones for your alarms, and much more. The Alexa App is also where you discover and enable third-party skills.

Make calls to anyone with a supported Echo device or the Alexa app, view your conversation history, manage contacts and get notifications when you receive a message.

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Perhaps if you live in the USA, this device will be of use.But in Sydney, Australia, where I purchased the device and live, it is useless.Both the device and the app are poorly implemented.It took no time at all to set up the Google device; I have had the Echo Plus for three days and, still, having trouble with set up. When you ask for weather, a radio station or something else that requires localisation, it produces the weather in Western Australia, a USA radio station unknown to me and, it seems, pop versions of well-known classical pieces.Yes, I have gone through the set up steps, several times, but no result. I have localised the device using the app on my iPhone, but no good.I will give it another day and, then, request a return.Google works fine and with no difficultyI don't think Amazon took Alexa seriously and neither should we!

We have a number of Google Home devices, and this was our first foray into the Alexa world. Very impressed with the design. Love the home hub for smart devices built in. Alexa however, is a little dim. She had no idea where I lived, until I told her twice (via the almost hidden app settings) that I did not live in Queen Anne, Washington State. I may soon though, as the weather there sounds phenomenal!! Anyway, finally able to reconfigure, and it is starting to get better.

I gave it 5 due to quality of the product. Sound is much better quality than the dot it replaced, not as good as a set of proper stereo speakers but volume is much louder and clearer at higher volume. As I am in Australia I would give it a 3-4 for usability compared to the American commands and uses but it turns the lights on and off really nicely but in Oz we seem to pay way more for the same switches than overseas for the same product. Using it mainly for light control and single power point but works really well and the ease of setup is great. As more products become available will add more switches and abilities but really happy at this stage and can only get better.

The Echo Plus sounds great, especially compared to the Echo Dot and is marginally better than the regular Echo. The sounds quality is still very good even at fairly high volume.

The Echo Plus can also hear me from across the living room over noise which is fantastic. The slight downside is that Alexa and Amazon Music Unlimited doesn't seem to be able to find songs I want to hear as well as Google Home Mini and YouTube Premium does. If I get a song or artist name slightly wrong, Alexa can't help with that while Google seem to be able to figure out what I want to listen to... which can be frustrating at times.

I agree with the other comments regarding the limited number of skills available compared to the States. Example - The Weather Underground skill should be available worldwide because the Weather Underground is available - my weather station reports to it on a constant basis - so someone in the USA can use to eh Echo Plus to access my data but I can't - makes no sense.

I didn't like that I had to connect my phone to an Amazon network rather than Alexa identifying available networks, being given my password, and simply connecting. This is what all other devices do. Once connected to the Amazon network there was no way of getting onto my network and thus onto the net. It's the most unintuitive device I've ever bought. The app was quite useless as there was no screen telling me what to do once I had my phone and Alexa connected via the Amazon network (and thus my phone disconnected from the net). Without passthrough to my telco all Alexa did was bleat that it had no net access. Duh! Amazon's help screens mentioned screens that simply did not appear on my app.

Good sound, but not as intuitive and I expected. Very disappointing that I cant connect my Samsung smart TV as the Samsung 'Smart Things' ap is not supported by Amazon Echo in Australia although its available in other locations. Also, while I can connect to my Samsung sound bar to play Google music through Echo Plus, I cant pair with the TV and soundbar to use Echo Plus as a rear speaker together with the sound bar. Also I wish it had bilingual capabilities, It only recognizes one language at a time. My wife who is Japanese would like to use it in Japanese, be we cant use both English and Japanese together.